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The Pretended _Messiah_ of the _Jewes_, In the Year of our _Lord_, 1666. The _Third Impostor_.
According to the Predictions of several _Christian_ Writers, especially of such who Comment on the _Apocalyps_, or Revelations, this Year of 1666 was to prove a Year of Wonders, of strange Revolutions in the World, and particularly of Blessing to the _Jewes_, either in respect of their Conversion to the _Christian_ Faith, or of their Restoration to their Temporal Kingdome: This Opinion was so dilated, and fixt in the Countreys of the Reformed Religion, and in the Heads of Phanatical _Enthusiasts_, who Dreamed of a Fift Monarchy, the downfall of the _Pope_, and _Antichrist_, and the Greatness of the _Jewes_: In so much, that this subtile People judged this Year the time to stir, and to fit their Motion according to the season of the Modern Prophesies; whereupon strange Reports flew from place to place, of the March of Multitudes of People from unknown parts into the remote Desarts of _Arabia_, supposed to be the _Ten Tribes_ and _halfe_, lost for so many Ages. That a Ship was arrived in the Northern parts of _Scotland_ with her Sailes and Cordage of Silke, Navigated by Mariners who spake nothing but _Hebrew_; with this Motto on their Sailes, _The Twelve Tribes of Israel_. These Reportes agreeing thus near to former Predictions, put the wild sort of the World into an expectation of strange Accidents, this year should produce in reference to the _Jewish_ Monarchy.
In this manner Millions of People were possessed, when _Sabatai Sevi_ first appear'd at _Smyrna_, and published himself to the _Jewes_ for their _Messiah_, relating the greatness of their approaching Kingdome, the strong hand whereby God was about to deliver them from Bondage, and gather them from all partes of the World. It was strange to see how the fancy took, and how fast the report of _Sabatai_ and his Doctrine flew through all partes where _Turkes_ and _Jews_ inhabited; the latter of which were so deeply possessed with a beliefe of their new Kingdome, and Riches, and many of them with promotion to Offices of Government, Renown, and Greatness, that in all parts from _Constantinople_ to _Buda_ (which it was my fortune that year to Travel) I perceiv'd a strange transport in the _Jewes_, none of them attending to any business unless to winde up former negotiations, and to prepare themselves and Families for a Journey to _Jerusalem_: All their Discourses, their Dreames, and disposal of their Affaires tended to no other Design but a re-establishment in the Land of Promise, to Greatness, Glory, Wisdome, and Doctrine of the _Messiah_, whose Original, Birth, and Education are first to be recounted.